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A Little Lobbying Goes A Long Way…
Councilmember Ed Reyes, Bike Advocate Immediately following the closing of the opening comments at yesterday’s all-day transportation press confer…errr…City Council Hearing, Councilmember Ed Reyes (D-1st) rose and gave a visionary speech promoting bicycling in Los Angeles. Reyes gave a vision of a Los Angeles where “People are able to go from house to train station … Continued
January 30, 2008
Coming Tomorrow: City Council "All Day" Transportation Meeting
Back in November, the City Council announced it was ordering a new city-wide transportation plan for the City of Los Angeles. Since its announcement, there hasn't been a lot of news about the report. Residents have been able to weigh-in on what they want to see done in LA through a website set up by Transportation Committee Chairperson Wendy Greuel, but nothing else has really happened.
January 28, 2008
Villaraigosa Vows Return of "Ride Metro with the Mayor"
Speaking in front of a small army of transportation advocates at the “It’s Time to Move LA” Conference, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa found his voice as a cheerleader for public transit. Once applauded for his “Ride Metro with the Mayor” Campaign, the Mayor and Metro Board Member admitted that’s it’s been awhile since he’s regularly rode … Continued
January 11, 2008
First thought on the Governor’s Budget
During his speech at today's "LA County Transportation Funding Collaborative" Conference on funding, Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-LA) predicted that "Transportation isn't going to take as big a hit as people think." (Much more on this conference tomorrow morning.) Well, the budget is in, what do people think?
January 10, 2008
Working World Mag Provides "Tips for Dealing with Your Commute"
The feature article in this week's Working World Magazine is entitled "Stuck in Traffic? 7 Ways to Get Out." Not surprisingly, none of its seven suggestions actually involve getting out of traffic. Mercifully, the article doesn't appear on the website.
November 30, 2007
Americans prefer Smart Growth to New Roads…
A new poll by Smart Growth America shows that nationwide the tide is turning against road widening projects and other forms of highway capacity enhancement. Just over one in five respondents thought that the best way to fight congestion was to add more lanes, while 3/4 of the respondents preferred more funding for transit and development patterns that favored walking and biking.
October 29, 2007
The 2nd Annual Alt Car Expo
StreetHeat took its first field trip this weekend to the 2007 Alternative Energy and Transportation Expo in Santa Monica. While I was wowed by cars that get 100 miles per gallon and bikes that do some of the pedaling for you...what was most important for this blogger was a chance to start meeting some folks in the transportation reform community and learn about which issues are hot locally.
October 22, 2007
Some other places to get links
There are two other great places to get transportation news online that have both been friends to StreetHeat in our first week online. First is a news clips service called, "Los Angeles Tranportation Headlines." Generally, they have a longer list of links than I do, but they also go up a little later in the morning. They can be found at http://losangelestransportation.blogspot.com/.
October 22, 2007
News Analysis: Can’t We Find a Better Way to Reduce the Pollution Caused by Cars?
For example, maybe we could try to have fewer cars on the road?
October 17, 2007